The White Falcon - 24.03.1945, Side 1

OUR FORCES —
ALWAYS ALERT
Vol. VIII.
ICELAND, Saturday, March 2'i, 1945.
No. 1.
Ail-Girl ENSATroupe
Delights Tripoli GIs
“ENTHUSED" OVER PLAYING BEFORE YANKS
BECAUSE “THEY’RE SUCH GOOD SPORTS
ABOUT COMING UP ON STAGE”
Making a decided depart-
ure from (lie usual ENSA
and USO cast grouping,
“Phyl’s Five” turned out to
be a quintet of charming
and talented voting women
(Sig. Corps Photo).
One of the comical high-
lights of the “Phyl’s Five”
ENSA show this week came
when Sgt. Al Cerunda got
down all fours to act as a
sofa used as part of the set-
ting for the joyful reunion
of a “recently-returned hus-
band” (Sgt. Steve Rudloff)
and his “faithful and loving-
wife” (Valerie Brown).
Hobbyist
Sig. Corps Photo).
Tire iable scarf which
Ter ;>■ -V PI. Svhafrik is
displaying in above photo
Is nude with ordinary
wrapping string. Schafrilc
dyes the string various co-
lors and weaves designs
on the hand-made loom or
frame. An Engineer, he
says that it takes about 40
hours to make a scarf.
Cpl. Schafrik finds that
they make ideal gifts for
various holidays and anni-
versaries.
who had the audience al the
Tripoli Theater figuratively
in the palm of their hands
last Tuesday night.
With ENSA for three ye-
ars, the group has appeared
throughout the UK and the
Faroe Islands and hopes
eventually to tour the con-
tinent and the Middle and
Far East. Their audiences
have ranged from 4,000 pe-
ople down to three men in
an isolated NisSen hut on the
Channel coast.
Phyilss Moulding, (he pi-
anist-manager of the troupe,
reports that they’ve traveled
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PX Sets Up Photo Service
Further extending its service to the GIs in Iceland, the Base Post Exchange Section*
through its chief. Major Harold M. Shaw, anounced this week the creation of the Post
Exchange Photo Laboratory.
The Laboratory will open
for business on or about the
first of April ,and will print
photos for the men here. In
order to accomplish this
long-needed service, person-
nel are now being trained by
Base Photo Lab. technician's
in the proper use of the new
printers, enlarger and dry-
1 ing machine.
Maj. Shaw reports that the
! pictures will be developed at
cost hut as yet it is not
known just how much each
print will he. Complete de-
tails on this aspect will he
announced at a later dale.
As at present, GIs and of-
ficers will submit their rolls
"Hudism World's Greatest Manifestation
NEW BOMBING DEVICE
AIDS SUPERFORTS IN-
KNOCKING BLAZES
OUT OF JAP CAPITAL
One of the most closely-
guarded secrets of the B-29
raids on Japan -an automat-
ic device that continuously
computes the plane’s exact
position in terms of latitude
and longitude, at the same
time indicating the true com-
pass bearing and mileage
covered from the point of
takeoff — has just been rev-
ealed by the Army arid Navy.
Known as (he Air Position
Indicator, the new device is!
credited with making it pos-
sible for the big B-29s to hit
Tokyo and other targets
right on the nose.
No bigger than a quart
milk bottle, the “API” is
mounted on the instrument
panel and makes automatic
calculations that would take
a navigator hours of work
with charts, star-sighting sec-
lants, and other equipment.
It allows the navigator to
pin-point the location of his
plane in mid-flight by tak-
ing indicator readings and
cheeking his driftmeter. The
driftmeter supplies all the
information needed to cor-
rect for error due to wind
drift.
Now installed in other he-
avy bombers as well as in
Superforts, the device is al-
sobeing used by carrier-bas-
ed Navy planes and has
played an important role ih
the air war over Germany
as well as Japan.
Next Week’s Falcon
Appears On Wednesday
Because of an Icelandic
holiday affecting the per-
sonnel of our print shop,
The. White’Falcon will he
published on Wednesday
of next week instead of
Saturday.
ROCKET GUNS PROVE
“EFFECTIVE” IN WEST
Rocket projectors which
fire 32 death-dealing missil-
es at the same time are now
being used as Allied artillery
on the Western Front, acc-
ording to an announcement
from officials of the British
War Office.
The projectors, employed
by British and Canadian
troops, are arranged in
groups of 12 guns with 32
barrels each. A barrage from
the 12 projectors, or 384
barrels, equals the firepow-
er of more than 280 ordin-
ary 5.5-inch guns using 100-
pound shells. They are said
to provide “very effective’
firepower.
A world of pinups in the
flesh is the postwar plan of
Alois Knapp of Chicago.
People, he says, should take
off their clothes.
Knapp, who is head of the
American Sunbathing Ass-
ociation and proprietor of a
successful nudist camp in
Indiana, declared, “Nudism
is the world’s greatest mani-
festation of democracy.
Take the clothes off people
and you have removed one
of- the greatest differences
between nationalities.”
of films to the Base Photo
Lab. for developing of nega-
tives and to the Base Censor,
for censorship. The indivi-
dual may then submit his
negatives to the Post Ex-
change Photo Laboratory if
he desires to have them
printed. |
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IBC Headquarters an-
nounced this week that
furlough time in the U.S.
under the T.D. plan has
been extended from 30
davs to 45 days.
AAF Takes Huge Toll
Of German, Jap Planes
During the first three
years of war, the AAF de-
stroyed or damaged more
than 5*9,000 German and
Japanese planes. In that
periodl 7,830 American plan-
es were lost.
just The Discharge Will
Be Okay With Most
Proposed legislation
was introduced in the
Senate this week to give
each member of the arm-
ed forces a year’s base
pay on his discharge. Sen.
Joseph Guffey (Dem.-Pa.)
told reporters it was not
a bonus bill but rather its
objective was to provide
veterans with funds for
the transition from civil-
ian to military life after
the war ends. He estimat-
ed the cost at; four billion
dollars annually in the
demobilization period.
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ONE OF WAR'S GREATEST PHOTOS
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German POWs In U.S. Will
So on Number Over 4 00,000
. An extra 1-00,000 German
war prisoners will he taken
to the Slates; "to ease the do-,
mestic labor’shortage as well
as ' relieve ' the 'burden of
■ guarding - the prisoners ab-
Toad* an ANS release report-
ed this week. •
.The War Dept, says the
POWs will he: used'only'for
essential workrfor which no-
civilian labor is available.
Their arrival will bring the
total German prisoners in
the U.S. to more than 400,000.
This photo, one of the most graphic taken in the war,
shows U.S. Marines of the 5th Division hoisting the flag
atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.